Camille Paglia writing in Salon
* * *
It’s zombie time at campaign Hillary. Behold the dead men
walking!
* DON'T FORGET THE DEAD WOMEN!
(*CHUCKLE*)
It was with strangely slow, narcotized numbness that the
candidate and her phalanx of minions and mouthpieces...
* MAN! I LIKE THAT! "HER PHALANX OF MINIONS AND
MOUTHPIECES..."
(*STANDING OVATION*)
...responded to last week’s punishing report by the State
Department’s Inspector General about her email security lapses.
Do they truly believe, in the rosy alternate universe of
Hillaryland, that they can lie their way out of this?
Of course! They’re relying as usual on the increasingly
restive mainstream media to do their dirty work for them!
* YES THEY ARE!
(*STILL LAUGHING*)
If it were a Republican in the crosshairs, Hillary’s
shocking refusal to meet with the Inspector General (who interviewed all four
of the other living Secretaries of State of the past two decades) would have
been the lead item flagged in screaming headlines from coast to coast. Let’s
face it — the genuinely innocent do not do pretzel twists like this to cover
their asses.
* AND DON'T FORGET HER I.T. GUY "TAKING THE
5TH" OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
(*SNORT*)
Meanwhile, former Bill Clinton advisor and pollster
Douglas Schoen gave the strongest signal yet in a Wall Street Journal op-ed
this week (“Clinton may not be the nominee”) that worried backstage huddles in
the Democratic party establishment are reaching fever pitch.
* PLEASE, GOD... LET ME BE WRONG... LET HILLARY RODHAM
CLINTON BE THE NOMINEE... I'M ON MY KNEES... I'M BEGGING YOU...
The article’s floating of the idea of a Joe
Biden-Elizabeth Warren substitute ticket (which I’ve been privately predicting
to friends all year) is so evenly and magisterially phrased that I wondered if
the text had been vetted by an approving White House.
* FRANKLY... I'M NOT CONVINCED THAT OBAMA WANTS A
DEMOCRAT TO WIN AT ALL. OBVIOUSLY HE DOESN'T WANT THE CLINTON MACHINE BACK IN
THE DRIVERS SEAT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, BUT... FOR PURPOSES OF PROTECTING HIS
"LEGACY"... FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER TO HAVE AN
"OPPOSITION" PRESIDENCY FOLLOW HIS SO THAT HE CAN IN FUTURE YEARS
BLAME EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG NOT ON HIS YEARS IN OFFICE BUT RATHER UPON HIS
REPUBLICAN SUCCESSOR?
(*SHRUG*)
So this may be why Bernie Sanders (my candidate) has gone
into overdrive — not to damage Hillary, as her acolytes spitefully claim, but
to fight off the tactical insertion of Biden at the Democratic Convention in
Philadelphia.
Sanders could rightly claim, on the basis of his long and
strenuous primary campaign, that if anyone deserves the nomination vacated by a
tarnished Hillary, it is he.
* DEAR GOD... IF MY INITIAL PRAYER IS REJECTED... PLEASE
CONSIDER HELP CRAZY BERNIE TO BECOME THE DEM NOMINEE! PLEEEASE!
If Sanders does defer to Biden, it will only be via
enormous concessions, beginning with the unceremonious removal of devious DNC
chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
* ACTUALLY... BIDEN WOULD BE TOAST TOO.
* MY FEAR... AS IT'S BEEN ALL ALONG... IS THAT OBAMA HAS
GORE WAITING IN THE BACKGROUND. AGAIN... THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW AND HATE GORE
HAVE GOOD REASON. BUT... BUT... BUT... REMEMBER THIS: ANYONE UNDER 30... 35...
KNOWS AL GORE AS A "CREDENTIALED" ELDER STATESMAN WITH A
"RESUME" AND "EXPERIENCE" AS A SENATOR AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
THEY ALSO KNOW HIM AS "MR. ENVIRONMENT" AND... LIKE IT OR NOT... FAR TOO
MANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS BUY INTO THE "CLIMATE CHANGE" (FORMERLY
KNOWN AS GLOBAL WARMING - AT LEAST TILL THE WARMING CEASED) NONSENSE. BELIEVE
ME, FOLKS... AL GORE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS CANDIDATE THE DEMOCRATS COULD
POSSIBLY FIELD. (AND IF HE WERE TO BE THE DEM PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WITH ELIZABETH
WARREN AS HIS RUNNING MATE THAT WOULD BE REAL TROUBLE.)
Over on the GOP side, Donald Trump continues to gain
strength, despite the non-stop artillery barrage of Democratic operatives and
their clone army in the mainstream media.
* AND THEIR REPUBLICAN (RINO) ESTABLISHMENT ALLIES! DON'T
FORGET THE 6TH COLUMN WITHIN THE GOP!
Trump just rolls on and on, despite every foot-in-mouth
gaffe that would stop a normal campaign cold. He’s terrific on the radio, I must
say. Even though I do like Elizabeth Warren (I even believe she has Native
American ancestry, although certainly not enough to qualify her for affirmative
action), I burst out laughing in my car last week when I heard Trump
confidingly say (like a yenta at Zabar’s deli), “She’s a woman that has been
very ineffective — except that she has a big mouth.”
(*GRIN*)
His New York comic timing was spot on.
(*THUMBS UP*)
I laughed out loud again this week when I heard Trump
interrupt his press conference to tag an ABC reporter as “a sleaze” — at which
I am sure thousands of other radio listeners heartily cheered.
* I KNOW I CERTAINLY DID!
(*STILL LAUGHING*)
It’s been a long time since any major politician had the
chutzpah to tell the arrogant, double-dealing East Coast media what most of the
country thinks about them.
* YEP...!
There’s an absurdist, almost Dadaist quality to Trump’s
candidacy, like Groucho Marx satirizing high society swells in A Night at the
Opera or the radical Yippies trying to levitate the Pentagon at their 1967
antiwar protest.
Trump routinely deploys all the subversive transgressiveness
that campus Leftists claim to value.
He goes straight as an arrow to the forbidden and
repressed — as when he recently fearlessly raised the long hushed up case of
the 1993 suicide of Vince Foster, the deputy White House counsel whom the Clintons
had brought to Washington from Little Rock. Unfortunately, Trump mixed it up
with baseless murder-conspiracy rumors, because there are already enough
unanswered questions about the incident (such as possible illegal interference
by Hillary’s staff in the official investigation and even the ambiguous issue
of exactly where Foster died).
* WELL... HIS "MIXING" JUST GOT YOU - CAMILLE
PAGLIA - TO BRING UP THE "UNANSWERED QUESTION" AND INDEED TO ACTUALLY
LAY THE MAIN UNANSWERED QUESTION OUT IN A SALON ARTICLE!
(*LOL*)
* YEAH... TRUMP IS CRAZY... LIKE A FRIGGIN' FOX!
Trump’s boisterous, uncensored id makes a riveting
contrast to Hillary’s plodding, joyless superego.
(*NOD*)
Listening to her leaden attempts to tell rehearsed jokes
is collective torture.
* AND THEN WHEN SHE BREAKS INTO FAKE ACCENTS...
(*HEADACHE*)
* OR FINGERNAILS ON CHALKBOARD SCREECHING...
(*SIGH*)
Hillary is not now, nor has she ever been, a member of
the Comedy Party. But we’re talking about the presidency here, not an improv
club. While I would love to see a Trump-style chief executive say “You’re
fired!” to half the parasitic Washington bureaucracy, I have high anxiety about
Trump’s shoot-em-up attitude toward international affairs.
* NOT ME! (AND I'M THE GUY WITH A FRIGGIN' DEGREE IN THE
SUBJECT; NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY '87 - CUM LAUDE.)
(*WINK*)
Exactly how long would it be after a Trump inauguration
before the nuke-horned bull would be crashing around the Red China shop?
* AS OPPOSED TO WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW? AS OPPOSED TO
WHAT'S GONE ON OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS... (NAY... THE PAST 23 YEARS...)?
* FOLKS... AGAIN... IN ALL SERIOUSNESS... IT'S MY
PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT THAT TRUMP IS MORE RIGHT ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS THAN ANY
OTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY SINCE RONALD REAGAN.
Last weekend, while plowing through my old files for an
upcoming book project for Pantheon, I found a written interview I gave in
October 2003 to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which had asked me
about allegations of misogyny against the newly elected governor of California.
Here is an excerpt from my statement:
“I am still amazed at the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger to governor — a man who has never held political office and who participated in only one serious debate. It is a disturbing sign in any nation when politics have become so inefficient and corrupt that the people turn to an outsider as ‘strong man’ for leadership. This is how fascism is born. Because it is Schwarzenegger’s machismo — represented on a superhuman scale in his films — that California voters want to attack the entrenched special interests in Sacramento, his behavior toward women was irrelevant. Or rather, his behavior actually reinforced his virile image as a forceful personality who pushes through barriers.”
How eerily history seems to be repeating itself!
* Er... CAMILLE...
* Er... MS. PAGLIA...
* SCHWARZENEGGER "RAN" CALIFORNIA MORE ALONG
THE LINES OF A RINO THAN AS A CONSERVATIVE - LET ALONE A TEA PARTIER. STILL...
EVEN WITH THAT SAID, HE DID FAR LESS DAMAGE DURING HIS TWO TERMS THAN PAST/PRESENT GOVERNOR
MOONBEAM (JERRY BROWN) HAS DONE AND IS DOING. IF ANYTHING, THE HISTORICAL PARALLEL
IS THAT AT BEST TRUMP WILL BE A GREAT PRESIDENT... AT WORST... A FAR BETTER
PRESIDENT THAN ANY LEFTIST DEMOCRAT WOULD BE.
(*SHRUG*)
But this time it is the fate of the entire nation that
hangs in the balance. Trump is a stormily dynamic change-maker who will surely
win this election unless the Democrats get their house in order and nominate a
figure of honor and integrity.
* NEVER. THEY JUST WON'T DO IT. AT BEST THEY'LL NOMINATE
BERNIE - WHO IS A SOCIALIST.
(*SNORT*)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Bernie Sanders, who represents the wave of the future, is
my first choice, but Joe Biden, with his international experience, would be a
solid second.
* I CAN'T HELP BUT LAUGH AT ALL THESE PEOPLE - PAGLIA
INCLUDED - WHO USE THE WORD "EXPERIENCED" AS IF AN "EXPERIENCED
INCOMPETENT" IS PREFERABLE TO A NON-POLITICIAN WITH AN ACTUAL RECORD OF
ACHIEVEMENT. SUCH ILLOGICAL THINKING STRIKES ME AS SIMPLY... BIZARRE.
If the kamikaze party wants to nominate an ethically
challenged incompetent like Hillary Clinton, then I’ll be voting Green for the
second time. Go, Jill Stein!
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